review 1: I love immigrant tales of the displaced. Likewise, stories of burgeoning adulthood in a mixed-up world is right up my alley & this compelling debut by a twenty-something & female Azerbaijani Jew whose family had fled from ethnic cleansing to Germany is along those lines & themes....

review 1: Russian literature always has me in my head for weeks after interacting with it, this book is no exception. It played with me on several levels. First is my fascination with language. How something so abstract is so fundamental to humanity. How it unites us and divides us all at ...